Graeme Souness knows a thing or two about the unacceptable face of football.
In August 1986 he failed to make it until half time in his first domestic match as player manager of the now in liquidation Rangers club. A brutal attack of George McCluskey kicked off an 18 man brawl at Easter Road.
A year later Billy Stark was the target, on Scotland duty he shamed the nation with brutal over the ball assaults on Peter Nicholas of Wales and Siggi Jonsson of Iceland.
His main contribution to football at Rangers was one of the most violent attacks seen in a European Cup tie when even Archie MacPherson was taken aback by the violence used on a Steaua Bucharest player.
While managing Blackburn Rovers he accepted payments from his old mate Dave Murray. As a manager in England he bought Barry Ferguson, Tugay and Jean-Alain Boomsong from his old club, the Boomsong deal later resulted on a police raid on Rangers where some interesting correspondence was passed to Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.
Sitting in his TalkSport echo chamber with Jim White and Simon Jordan the former Rangers manager was in his element.
Picking up on the broadcast, The Sun reports Souness saying:
Celtic now have a major problem because if you’re a sponsor of a company looking to sponsor a football team in Scotland, would you consider Celtic anymore? No not at all.
And the decision makers at Celtic, by being silent on this matter, they’re compounding the problem. They are causing such a problem for themselves.
This isn’t just a talking point in Scotland, it’s a talking point around the world. They have shot themselves in the foot big time.
It’s amazing to me, now it is a minority that were guilty of this, but this minority are damaging the club beyond belief.
And if you’re a Rangers supporter then it’s happy days, on you go, keep your silence, keep it going.
They should have been out days ago condemning this and they’ve not.
For everyone who doesn’t like Celtic then it’s music to their ears, the silence is brilliant, keep it going.
They’ve shot themselves in the foot and they must see that. They are now the unacceptable face of Scottish football.
Celtic Football Club has paid HMRC every penny owed on time, without ever defaulting.
David Tanner covers Scottish football for TalkSPORT and is a welcome guest of Celtic’s Communication Manager.
On 17th May 2001, Blackburn Rovers agreed to buy Tugay from Rangers for £1.3m.
Around the same date, Rangers opened an EBT account for the Blackburn Rovers manager.
On 13th June 2001, while still manager of Blackburn Rovers, Souness requested £30k from his sub-trust. https://t.co/FZpfaNdBcH
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) September 20, 2022
My heart swells with pride hearing how our wonderful supporters are annoying horrible c*nts like this
Oh dear the BENNYS keep trying to out do each other in the-cosy hat stakes.
Every time one of them opens their mouth all they do is dig themselves deeper into the shit,the BIGOT and thug Souness today,Miller and Jackass Jackson last week BENNY Boyd the week before that.
Imagine Souness of all people having a go at Celtic Football Club and their fans,and ignoring the BIGOTED and RACISTS elements attached to the ibrox klub,you couldn’t make it up.
What’s that saying again people in glass houses.
Dundee hamilton how does the rest of the song go mr souness ?.
He is getting pelters on Twitter for covering up the child abuse of Graham Neely whilst they were both employees of the old club.
He is also seen on video encouraging players to sing anti Catholic and anti Irish hate songs.
Dignity!
One presumes he means the anti-monarchy protests. The unacceptable face of Scottish football is contempt of FFP, undermining of sponsorship, bent referees.
I would have thought that in the name of fair, honest ,journalism , Talk Sport would have had a Celtic minded guest on that episode ,to reply to Souness’s spurious ,specious ,and bogus accusations ! White ,Souness and Jordan ,all around the same table and studio ,is as prejudiced and discriminate as it gets .
The “Men Against Boys” game, when he was at Blackburn, should have shut that clown up. He gambled the manhood of his players that night and lost! What’s to say after that?
Twat…….the end.
this rubbish sourpus spouts you could not make up bent ebt tax cheat the bigots chanting every week upto there knees in our blood getting sections of there stadium close
for racist and bigotry chanting rioting when the won the leauge cheating creditors out of millions including their beloved queen no longer* here so some of our fans Expressed they do not like the crown or the royals etc I think we have free speach in the uk or are we in Russia /China pathetic fool.
A typical bigoted biased jock protestant monarchy loving idiot.